Bottled water - yay or nay?

If you were given an option to choose between bottled water and tap water? What would you choose? The discourse between the need versus the impact of using bottled water have been lingering among us for decades. Some people argued bottled water provides more guarantee in terms of safety for the human health, especially for a drinking water, high quality is a necessity. However, in the other hand, bottled water to some people is considered to be more harmful for the environment. Hence, threaten its sustainability.  Given the drawback, bottled water still provides many more benefit compared if using tap water.

Those who are opposed to bottled water view bottled water as a source of environmental destruction. First, since bottled water are mainly created from plastic, it is definitely not environmental friendly. The waste would need a very long time to be recycled. During the process in developing bottled water, a high rate of pollution is emitted to the air as well. Therefore, it can affect human’s health especially those who are living in urban area where rate of air pollution is higher.

Nevertheless, bottled water is still the main source for drinking water, especially for people who live in developing countries, including Indonesia. In Indonesia, access to a healthy and clean drinking water is still limited. People cannot rely on tap water per se as there are no water regulations that guarantee tap water is safe, healthy and drinkable in Indonesia. Hence, many people prefer to buy bottled water for the purpose of drinking compared to using tap water. Bottled water can be guaranteed to be taken from sanitary environment and has gone through a strict quality control to ensure that there are no potentially dangerous bacteria or leave a bad after taste. Bottled water, in terms of portability, is very handy than tap water. It can be brought anywhere and easy to slip into bags. Bottled water also comes in fashionable way to attract kids